James Watt Raine Biographical File, Record Group 9, Berea College
Archives

Series Description
1 Manuscript Box

Series III

Short Stories, Plays, and Book Manuscript

Box 1, Cont.

This series consists of a variety of writings by Raine including the typescript
of a projected book, Ways of Life of the Appalachian Mountain People;
short stories; and several manuscripts of original plays.

Box 1, Cont.

Short stories and plays

Typed book manuscript

Series IV

A College Course in Ballads Proposed

Box 1, Cont.

Notes pertaining to a proposed ballad course at Berea College which would
grant college credit for collecting ballads. Raine proposed a Berea College
course that would conclude with the students in his class collecting ballads
from the students’home territories for course credit.

Box 1, Cont.

Ballad course - proposed

Series V

Lecture Notes on Ballads

Box 1, Cont.

Lecture notes related to a ballad course taught by Mr. Raine at Berea College
- an English course combined with Scottish ballads. Typed lecture notes and
related words and music to selected ballads.

Box 1, Cont.

Lecture notes - ballads

Series VI

Correspondence

Box 1, Cont.

The correspondence is dated from 1902 to 1936. The major portion of the correspondence
in this series is between Raine and Berea College president, William G. Frost,
whom Raine addressed as “Willyum Gee”

Box 1, Cont.

General correspondence

Series VII

Biography

Box 1, Cont.

This series consists of a short Raine biography contained in an unpublished
manuscript, “Berea’s Ballad Collectors: James Watt Raine, John
F. Smith, Katherine Jackson French, and Gladys V. Jameson,”by Sidney
Saylor Farr, dated 1980. A bibliographical listing of articles and books by
or about Raine is also included.

Box 1, Cont.

Bibliographical material

Appendix
(The following is the list of the known contributors to the ballad collection.)